Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 1

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For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher. ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.’ What do people gain from all their labours at which they toil under the sun?

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains for ever.

No-one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.